Van Diemen's Women. A History Of Transportation To Tasmania

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The History Press
Publisher Place: Ireland
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: Reprint

Description: 400 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemens Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women, it focuses on two women in particular; Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol, where she was for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death; and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. What emerges is a picture of the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania, and asks the question about whether this Draconian punishment was, for some, a life-saving measure.

ISBN: 9781845888855